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THE COLONIES. [From The Royal Gazette and Bahama Arlocrtizer, July 19, Masses. EDlTORS.—Hpivinr read in your Paper of the Ifvh instant, certain extracts nom the His tory of E !gland, and the letters of, J un ius, whirl ) appear to have been published with a view to instil into the minds of the people of these islands an opinion that their late Representatives the General AssembFy had acted unconstitutionally, in exercising the power of imprisonment for con tempts, I feel it necessary, in vindication of the yeoceedings of the Late House of Assembly, to request you will publish the following extracts from the speech made by Lord Eilenhorough, in pronottucing judgment in the case of Sir Ft antis Burdett against Mr. Abbot, the late Speaker of the H owe of Commons, which will be found in the I4t h Vol. of East Term reports, page I st. Ills Lordship, after mentioning a multitude of tat ecedents establishing the right and power of the House.to commit for con , empts, said, dependently of any precedents, or recognised prac tice! On the subjeet,'.such a body must a priori be armed with a competent authority to enforce the free and independent exercise of its own pro per functions, whatever those functions might be." " It must also have the power of protecting itself from insult and indignity, wherever offered, by punishing those who offer it. Can the High Court of Parliament, or either of the two Houses of which it rousis s, be deemed not to possess in trinsically that authority of punishing summarily for contempts, which is acknowledged to belong, and is daily exercised as belonging to every supe rior Court of Law, of less dignity undoubtedly than itself ? And is not the degradation and dis paragement of the two Howes of Parliament, in the estimation of the public, by conten.pt twits r i biTh, as notch an impedirmoit to their efficient acting with regard to the public, as the actual obstroction of an individual mem b er by b o dily force, in Its endeavour to resort to the place where Parliament is holden ? and would it con sist with the dignity of such bodies, or, what is More, with the immediate and (lire, Ind exercise of their import:lot functions, that they should wait the comparatively tardy result of a prosecution in the ordinary course of Lim, for the vindica tion of their privileges from woong 'and insult ? The necessity of the case would therefore, upOo principles of natural reason, seem to require, that such bodies, constituted for such purposes, and exercising such functions as I I I they sti.t. pot aess such powers as the history of the earliest times spews that they have in tact possessed and used." •t ill- it appears, that all the other Judges of the Court ot bench agreed in opinion witlrLoul Eileobrougb, and further that the judgment of the Court in that case was lately affirmed by !he House of Lords, which has set at rest for ever any doubts that may have existed, as to the power of the House of Commons to commit for Libels against them, and for other eontempts. A LATE MENIIIER OF ASSEMBLY. TO THE EDIToIiS oF THE'ROYAL GAZETTE, NASSAU. The Attorney• General requests that the inclosed Paper may he published ir, the next Royal Ga zette.__Nassaii, 15rh July ISIS. charges against Wylly, Esquire, his Najesiy's Attorney-General of the Bahama Islands, as eouisined in four several Resol e ions in de by the House of Assembly on the 10[h day of July 1818. And Mr. Wylly's Answers to those Charges. Ist Reso/utioa.—Resolved, That in and by the Report of a Scicrt Committee of the Floose of As• sembly of the. 21st 3,,iitiary 1817, IVilliam Wy, ENq is cliaren with a high hreach of the leges of the noose, by an injorioos ini,represeti tation of the Proceedings of the sante in a Cor respondence wish some one or more persona be longing to an association in England, calling itself the African institution. ANSWER. Ist. 1 never have tnisrepresented any of the Proceedings either of the present, or of any for mer House of Assembly to the African Inst itution, or to any other person or persons whatever. 2d Resolution.—Resolved, That in and by the same Report the said tVilliam Wylly is charged with another and further contempt and hreach of the Privileges of the House ot Assembly, by wriiing an insolent note or letter to the Select Committee, contemptuously denying the ant hori► y of the House to enquire into his condi , ct, and re fusing to make to the said CoMmittee any com munications which it might require ot him, touch ino the twitters which the said Committee was appointed to investigate, with power from the Noose to send for persons and papers according to Pat liamentary usage. ANSWER. 2d. It is not my business to inquire what were the powers belonging to the Committee of the House of Assembly who addressed a letter to me on the 11th January 1817. But I believe that when a Committee, appointed by either House of Parliament, is desirous of examining a person or sending for a paper, it is usual for the Committee to apply to the House, upon which the House (not the Conunittee) makes the nccesslry order. But whatever the practice ought to be in such cases, it diet Committee had ordered me to attend them, 1 should' have done so, with the same readiness that I attended the Committee of the preceding year. ()r had that Committee stared any specific fact laid to my charge, I would immediately have answered it. But they did neither. They indeed wrote use a letter, which it was impossible for rue to consider in any other light than as an insult— and as that letter neither demanded, nor com manded any thing specific, 1 could consequently have no specific answer to return to it ; for it is plain that it was not the intention, either of the House, or of the Committee, that I should give ansivers to the interrogatories, of which they inclosed the a • copy ; and which were expressly intended for the examination of " the Members if time Select Committee of the preceding Session." have further to object against the above men tioned Resolution of the 21st January 1817 (and which was the ground-work of the warrants after wards issued against me), that by the law of the i4od " no man, of what condition he may be, shall be I►ut out of land or tenement, nor taken. nor imprisoned, nor disinherited, without being brought it► to answer, by due process of law :" that no British subject can lawfully be adjudged guilty of any criu►e or offence, by either House of Parliament, or by any Colonial House of As sembly. or by any of the King's Court, without having first beet' summoned to.answer to sonic spreific charge ; and therefore that the aforesaid Resolution, by which I was adjudged guilty of a breach of the Privileges of the late House of As sembly, was unjustly, unduly, and unlawfully made. It I bail been summoned to attend either nl►uu the House, or npon that Committee, 1 could and would easily have show!), that I had in no respects misrepresented the proceedings of the House, as supposed in that Resolution. 3d Resolution --Resolved, That the same Wylly, on the 22d ut January 1817, was of a Con tempt and high breach of the Privileges of the House, by arming his Negroes at CI fton, in the Island of New Providence, for the purpose of re sisting the due execution of a Speaker's ‘Varrant, issued against him by order of the House, and did on the evening of the same day cause William Chisholm, the Messenger of the House, to whom the said warrant was addressed, and who proceed ed to Clifton aforesaid, to execute the same, to be actually resisted by the said armed Negroes. ANSWELL 3d, The subject matter of this charge was tried last year, in t:.e General Court ; and is still pend ing there. That prosecnttot►, 1 supposed, was instituted by direction of the late House of As sembly ; and I believe it to be a rid:: of law, and of universal justice, that no man (ight to be liable to mote than oi:e prosecution bit - the same matter. This is the first instance that has come to my knowledge, of two' piu•ecutions being at the s4nte time carried on, either before the saute or different tithimals, tor one and the same alleged offence. freely admit that the gates at Clifton wets shut and locked, by my orders, on the night of the 22,1 January, ISI 7, and that I at the sante time caused four empty 111113(pletS to he put into the hands of tour of my set van s, which was done for the purpose of preserving the peace of my re sidence, and to defend toy person and castle from the unlawful invasio❑ of a nocturnal peace-breaker; not to resist the due execution of any lawful war rant. A person (who turned out next day to be a Messenger of the Liouse of Assembly) certainly did come to the front gate, at a late hour of that night, and he demanded admittance, which uas refused, according to the order which I had pre viously given to the guard ; but that person did not say that he was a Messenger of the House of Assembly, neither did he tell his name, or his of lice, or the business on ,‘ hick he came. But had he even proclaimed himself, with a loud voice, to be " Chisholm, Me.ssenger of the fi , ,use of Assembly, and the bearer ut a warrant from the Speaker, for the arrest of William Wylly," I sub mit that, even then, he could have no right to expect admittance at that unseasouable hour of the night. Coming as he did, be was considered 83 a suspi cions person, and wus no! admitted. But he made no attempt to force his way in,. and consequently met with no rcsiptance. 4th Resolution, Resolved, That the same Wil liam Wylly, on the 25th day of January, 1817, when betoic the General Court of these islands, under a writ' at Habeas Corpus, did commit a c.mtempt and high breach of the privileges of the flouse of Assembly, by publicly calumniating the same, and repeatedly speaking contemptuously of the House and all the Members thereof, in kibu si%c scurrilous language. ANSWER. 41h, The words alluded to in the fourth Reso lotio,., and therein alleged to have been uttered by me, iii contempt ot the late House of Assem bly (it by toe, and spoken) were lawfully uttered, in the ordinary course of p.iblic justice, when viudicatkg my own rights as s tree British sub ject: and wete duly addressed to their Honours the Judges ot the General Court, for the purpose of ',hewing that 1 ought to be discharged by their Honours tram an unlawful arrest ; and I there fore suppose that I cannot lawfully be questioned in this House respecting any such words so used before a Court of competent jurisdiction. Nassau, 140.10 y, 181 t. NVNI. WYLLY. Recent letters from Madrid state, that very serious disturbances have broken out in the gar rison of Cortinna. The soldiers (who have not received their pay for more than one year, and who are destitute of every necessary) plundered the markets of the town, and were even on the point .of' pillaging the warehouses and shops.— They totally disregarded the orders of their offi cers. The civil authorities hastened to raise a forced loan nom the most rich amongst the inha bitants, and the troops having received something on account of their pay, concluded by returning to their duty. It is thought that these disorders were secretly excited by the Officers who were implicated in the last conspiracy of General LASCT. The Aurora transport, Lieut SPENCER, agent, arrived at Portsmoath on Wednesday from Rah fax, in 23 days, laden with Government stores, invalids, &c. Bear-Admiral Sir DAVID MILNE, in the Leander, Captain CHETHAM, with Lord and Lady DaLuousis on board, sailed from Halifax about a week before the Aurora, for the purpose of visiting the eastern parts of the province. They were attended by the Forth, Captain Sir JOHN Louts, and expected to be absent about three weeks or a month. The Tamar, Captain ToKEn, had been refitted, and was about to return to New foundland. The Dee, Captain CHAMBERS, and Grasshopper, Captain Foaaes, were also at Hali fax. The Wye, Captain HARPER, was at St. John's, New Brunswick. The Saracen, Captain GORE, had sailed for Bermuda, and the Harrier, Captain Sir CHARLES JONES, for Jamaica. The Lords of the Treasury have ordered that all Bibles and Testaments exported by the British and Foreign Bible Society shall be allowed to pass duty free. THEATRICAL, REGISTER. Performed on Saturday Night. TIItATRE nnYAL, DRUKY-LAKE.—Venice Preserved : Pierre, Mr. Cleary; Belvidera, Mrs. West. After which (first time), Sigesrnar, the Switzer. THEATRE. ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA, STRAND.—The Retnlez• vous4 Principal Characters by Mr. Hat ley and Miss Ktlly. After which, The Blind Boy. To which was addcd, Ama teurs and Actors. *** FOILLONDON 301.'1{NAL‘, set the First Page. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Letter signed A. on AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, and from AN OLD BARRISTER, to theJuDGes, on the INSOLVESTDEBTORS' ACT, To-murrow. MAILS. AnxivEn-3 Dublin, 2 Waterford. 1 Guernsey and Jersey, Hambur4ll, 1 Holland, 1 Flanders, 1 France, I Malta, 1 Jamaica, 1 Brazils. Dug-1 Waterford, 1 Sweden. PRICE OF STOCKS irmis DAY A T TWF:LVF. o'cLocK. 3 per Cent. Cons 74; Omnium ~...dis. 3; 5 per Cent. N. Ann 105 Rauh for Account ........270 India Bonds. ..... 735. 75s pr. Cons. fur Account 75 Exch. Bills, ed... 15s. 17s. pr. HICH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morniag, 53 minutes after I. J Evening, 18 minutes after 2. TI IE SUN. lOLEM QUIS nIOERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, MOND.4V, SEPTEMBER 23, 1818. THE QUEUN.—The following is the Bulletin which wits issued this day : " KEW PALACE, SEPT. 28. " The QUERN feels herself somewhat refreshed this morning, her MAJESTY having slept well in the night. (Signed) " F. MILMAN. " H. HALFORD." Yesterday and this morning we received the Pat is Papers of Thursday and Friday last. On Wednesday the KING held a Council of Mi nisters, which sat from one o'clock till half-past four. The Duke de RICHELIEU was expected to arrive at Aix-la•Chapelle on Saturday last, and the D.ke of WELLINGTON about the same time. The Duke de RICHF.LIEV'S diplomatic assistants, namely, M. de RAY NEVAL, Director of the Chancery of Fo reign Affairs ; M. BOUJOT, Chief of Division; and five Sub-Chiefs, set out for Aix-la-Chapelle on Tuesday last. The Congress, it is now said, will not he opened till the beginning of next month. The Emperor of RUSSIA, it seems, is not to arrive at Aix-la Chapelle till to-morrow. According, however, to the prevailing opinion, the question as to the retirement of the Army of Occupation from France is very soon to he de cided upon.—From Strasburg it is stated to be a general report in Alsace, that the Allied Troops in that quarter are to commence their march homewards on the 15th of next month. A part of the Austrian corps is, it is said, to be added to the garrison of Mayence, to which place the Aus trian artillery is also to be conveyed. It is said, in one of the Journals, that after the departure of the Allied troops, the garrison of Paris will be exclusively composed of regiments of the Royal Guards. In other places the Legions will do duty. From Berlin it is mentioned, that the Patent for appointing the Count de BKRNSTORFF Minis ter for Foreign Affairs was making out, and he was to proceed to Aix-la-Chapelle to assist at the conferences. The Emperor of AUSTRIA, according to some acc“unts, was to have an interview with the King of BAVARIA, on his way to Aix-la-Chapelle. The following are extracts from the Journals of Friday : " PARIS, SEPT. 25.—His Majesty transacted business yesterday with the Councillor of State d'Hauterive, who bolds the Porle-feuille of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, during the absence of the Duke de Richelieu. The Duke de Richelieu quitted Carnbray the 20th instant, to psnceed to Brussels. " The Duke of Wellington set out a few mi nutes afterwards, to be present at a Fête given near Lille by the General Commandant of the Saxon Contingent, to celebrate the Jubilee of his Sovereign's reign. The Duke of Wellington was to proceed the 21st to Brussels, go from thence to Spa, and is to be at Aix-la-Chapelle to-mor row, the 26th. " The King is entirely recovered. " The King of Spain has conferred ►►pon the King of Denmark the Older of the Golden Fleece. FIVE PER CENTS. 'Wednesday Thursday .. 74 f. 75 c. ..74 f. 35 c. DEFERRED STOCK Wednesday. Thursday. Of the 24d March, 1417.... 861. 25 t. c. 22(1 Sept. 1 I 7....84 f. 15 c.... 29d Nfarch, 1818 ...82f. 45 c.... 821. —c. Slid Sept. 1818...80 1. 80 c.... 80 f. —c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One Month 44 f. 20c. Three Months 44 c. (' AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, SEPT. 21.—The King of Prussia has forbidden every kind of ceremony on µ I ill Il ql his arrival. The two Emperors, howe er ' he rtceived with all the honours, civil d°i ii °t o ( tar y, due to their high rank. The Go veruors rs Provinces will go to meet them at th e front' of their Governments. Iu the garrison I°.°l the Commandants will receive from them the P 55 Word, an.i wherever the- , stay a night the 10 will be illuminated. t " The equipages of the Emperor of t consist of nine carriages and six, ten wiih is and six with two horses. Toe Emperor of travels with a very small suite, and the r elays r tiered for him are only forty horses. n the " A contribution has been imposed or - 4 inhabitants, in lieu of supplying lodgings' $I supporting the military, who will he ill c °°s : quence lodged in the public buildings, and at I 4 inns. ritb " One is astonished here at the assurance which some foreign Journal 3 and periodical rot lications announce that they will give an oc c '' u l „ of the Sittings of Congress. This a ppears 1/ be s be together a deception as to the n ature of of ;Meeting of these Sovereigns united by ti ' s personal friendship ; there is no quesiior) sb U t Sittings, and it is probable that all the ob" ..fl te will remain at too great a distance to be able listen even at the doors. " VIENNA, SEPT. 13.—The Doke of ° lllni° 11 0 (Fouche) has been residing at Lintz sine" 27th tilt. " FRANKFORT, SEPT. i 9. —The Pu ke I' Duchess of Cumberland arrived here (0-( 1 ' 1 ' t ri `` NUREMBERG, SEPT. 17.--The Emperor Austria will arrive here the 20th i n stant, so d the night in this city. His Imperial Mojes t l ° o p then proceed to Wurtzhnrg, and from then ce the left hank of the Rhine to Selingenstal f ' AG " HAMBUEGH, SEPT. 14 —Count Chritoi.ii Bernstorff arrived on the 1 ith instant at 41( : : 0 and set out yesterday for Aix-la-Chapell e, W he will arrive the 20th. h t 1111 , " From Hanover the 10th, we learn, a . Russian General-hi-Chief, the Count de 15e:°-td sen, arrived there on the Bth, and paid vi " ( the Dukes of Cambridge and Clat cote. D ig C°4' c °4l proceeds to the Congress of Aix el h• s td " STOCKHOLM, SEPT. B.—The Kiog : s er e' arrive on the Ist inst. at Drontheim. ibe* ssoo monial of the Coronation is to be nearly as that which took place here. tO g 0. " Ismael Gibraltar, the Agent General Egypt,fr proceeds i l l s as t o set t a o l t y o t iu a • i v i e tr s l s s e c i l t. Vl,ll, P w a h c e l :l 4 ce of h epr co has purchased." The unfortunate 0 ,11 1 5;: di3pute3 between t he nor of the littnAmAs and the ll.t,ce of P s° v iip have been several times noticed in this i'"P er e ' r id, regret, and on the sth of this month we ins, of The Royal Gazette and ,Bahamaildverti z . ro , July 15, 1818, which contained the Ot*istote ceedings on the subject---a subject o f a n li t iOe highly interesting, and, indeed, of the tite l-s portance to all our Colonial Establishatenr, astnuch as it is essential to their peace and or stl i rity, that the respective rights of t he Gov ern ec ifelf of the Representative Body should b e P r e pre defined, ascertained, and recognized. 111 0 1 0 ceedings in question have excited mud'bey we understand, in other Colonial Settlemene tg oft longing to this country, and, therefore, vd that Ministers, who have always sbew n 1 : e Oie able anxiety to maintain the peace of pire, which can only be preserved by at g tes o support to legitimate Authorities, wall l in tee gate the subject with all requisite cars en( ei 400- 0 1 lion, to the end that a Delegated PO w er c ; Ole g" be permitted to intrench upon th e P r " e r o the Representative Body, no r the late cote some rights which may interfere with the s • g 'jai superintendance of the State. two co lor° cularly directed our attention towar ds re' f ° ljr Concerns, and therefore alloted a part ° ue for th e per, under the title of Tue Coeotrles' t , ore (' purpose, as our Colonial Interests are" i r e, est importance to us as a Commercial: i ll : s P o f is yesterday received, with pleasur e, a c oot , r o, hanza Gazettes, down to the latest 1 ' „ .0 0 1 4 August 1, the contents of which we o f t he firS t, communicate to our Readers.--3 - - - . d. Sal NO series we inserted, as we have a lready flea ( ( 1 1 o sue sth inst., and we this day pre sent t° tote ' ,fort° further particulars respecting th e u 9 11/ t he set jitaimonasiccavhii:ahpewrse arri v e e b d e t f i : i r s e m or n no tated . inv to 0 0 0°P ; ult. the following are extracts :---- Tarue P ° hor " KINGSTON, AUG. I.—The a to of 20 guns, Captain Lows, can' She riii Se 0 111°P Port Royal on Thursday from a C c ot' 4 14 17. " been on the coast of Cuba, in ti ho d h og solo bog in with some of the marauders rde, „ pret a lately committit , de tiOn 3 c';::: o l , e iise i° d e a tr . did not discover any of Illem• atailcr , Of Port Antonio yesterday se i nn i g hr, the East End for two days. " The laldon left Tencrille ° 0 ill' A 6: ti %ti 110 C I XV ♦i 4„ 04 ti, Oil bf Itp, t ' . L 4 11,„ t ,4kit 'r e 44 4 I I 11, er o p i•